The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14
VANCE AND THE PRESIDENT.
"FOr the Sake of Decency Let the Cater
waning be StOpped.''
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE

Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. c., July :, lSS7-The
swapping and snaring that has been going
on for some time among certain North
Carolina Journals about the relations of
the President and Senator Vance, are go
ing to work no good to the Democratic
party in the State. All manly men are
becoming weary and disguised. Those
papers which follow Vance wherever he
may choose to lead-in other words, pa
perS which have no opinion of their own
decry any attempt to question Mr.. Vance S
lnfallibllity, and insist that he is the ora
Gle of all slmon-pure Democracy. They
try t" read out of the party any man or
paper thai does not choose to fawn at our
great Senator's feet. Any man who refuses
to accept as law and gospel everything
that falls from his lips cannot be a sound
Democrat; ergo, the President is not a
Democrat. Now, | fearlessly venture the
assertion, that no one has greater con-
tempt for this class of men than the Sena-
tor himself. On the other hand, we have
papers and men which dare to question
Nh. Nances Democracy: because forsooth,
he does not agree with Mr.. Cleveland in
all the minor details connected with the
Administration. Mr.. Vance has views of
his own, just as any man ought to have,
and be has the courage to say that he be
lleves those views to be right and Mr.
Cleveland to be wrong He would not be
a faithful or competent public servant if
he did not have decided convictions AS
to the expediency, in political point of
view, OF giving so much prominence TO his
differences with the President, Mr.. Vance
Is also entitled to his own opinion, just as
the rest of us are entitled to ours Some
of us may think it best; others may think
to + ha, l
what that has to do with our Democracy
When a paper speaks of ''alIegiance to
party before fealty to Cleveland" d" that pa
per says that the President is not a Demo
crat and that Vance is. You can't make
it anything else. All intelligent men know
that Cleveland is the honestest and brain
lest, and bravest and biggest man that has
been President since jackson; and they
know also that Vance stands in the scale
of North Carolina Senators just where
Cleveland does in that of Presidents. They
are both unyielding in their Democratic
principles and their devotion to party.
All Of US, who are neither fanatics nor
fools, know that Then why this item
pest in teapot"
If a paper dares to say that Mr.. Ceve-
land is doing his duty, that he is honest
and a Democrat, these little fanatical
sheets raise a howl of holy horror, and
talk about papers giving Mr.. Vance a
''luke- warm support, and trying to injure
him before the people. As if an honest
editor couldn't love and admire both Vance
and Cleveland at the same time Did il
ever occur to you, Mr. Editor, that there
might be just a little demagoguism about
the ridiculous protests of these papers? Is
it possible that they could want to climb
into public favor by laudlng Vance? And
why not! They have nothing to sacrifice
in the way of intelligent views of their
oV il: sc let them try to make an issue be-
tmeei Vance and the President, and then
speculate on North Caroina's S love for her
great and good Senator. Then think it
possible that there may be some papers
which have tried to advertise their orig
inality and independence by taking Mr..
Vance to task because he dares to disagree
with the President in the slightest trifle.
Well, fear that the professional poll
tlclans have not got monopoly of dema-
goguism. This Is what think, and | am
confident that the intelligence of the State
will agree with me: Vance is just as good
a Democrat to-day as he ever was in his
life. and Cleveland is just as good Demo
crat as Vance. There is really no issue
between them. They disagree about some
small things that are of little Importance,
and but for the hell abaloo raised by the
two classes of papers referred to, the mole
hill would never have been magnitied into
a mountain. We all admire Cleveland
above all the Presidents We have known,
love, above all North Carolinians Let
these little howlers, for the sake of com
mon decency, stop their cater waulng.
AJRANIru